The Status And Appraisal Of Classic Texts

Author : Conal Condren
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400853649

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The Status and Appraisal of Classic Texts by Conal Condren Pdf

Conal Condren examines the criteria for judging both works of political theory and texts associated with related academic genres. He discusses the rhetoric surrounding terms like originality," "influence," and "coherence," the value of these terms as criteria of textual assessment, and their use in charting the history of texts. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Conal Condren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0608033146

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The Status and Appraisal of Classic Texts by Conal Condren Pdf

Author : Dussen,Rubinoff
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004451605

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Objectivity, Method and Point of View by Dussen,Rubinoff Pdf

The essays collected together in this volume originated with a symposium which addressed a variety of issues associated with the publications of Professor W.H. Dray in the philosophy of history. In this expanded version of the original symposium, to which Professor Dray has provided a critical response, a group of prominent philosophers and historians address the central questions posed by contemporary philosophy of history - such as, the logic and methodology of historical explanation, the selection and uses of evidence, the fact/value relationship, the nature of historical causation, the question of conflicting interpretations and their possible resolution, the idea of history as a school of practical wisdom, and the question whether history has any discernable pattern or meaning. These issues are approached from the experience of both historians and philosophers and represent an important increment to the long-standing and continuing debates concerning the nature and aims of the practice and philosophy of history.

Author : Conal Condren
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0521522382

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George Lawson's 'Politica' and the English Revolution by Conal Condren Pdf

This is the first full account, analysis and subsequent history of George Lawson's Politica, 1660-89. For long accepted as a significant figure, through his criticism of Hobbes and his possible influence on Locke, Lawson has never been studied in depth, nor has his biography been previously established. Professor Condren here provides the context and the analysis of Lawson's major work, in the process re-dating it and providing a quite different interpretation from previous readings. A substantial section is devoted to the history of the text and its use in controversies in the period 1660-89, and there is some reassessment of the relationship between Hobbes, Locke and Lawson. The study also uses Lawson's text to reopen questions about English seventeenth-century political theory in general, and to prefigure a theoretical study on metaphor and political conceptualisation. The book thus operates on a number of levels, philosophical and linguistic as well as historical.

Author : Dominic Welburn
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030413613

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Canon Controversies in Political Thought by Dominic Welburn Pdf

This book explores the meaning of 'influence', which has played a central role in the formation of the canon, or tradition, of Western political thought. Via a critical overview of the relative fortunes of influence studies in the history of political thought, literary theory, and – at times – the history of art and poetry, it is possible to identify a dominant theory of the term. Nietzschean and ‘emanational’ in nature, thanks largely to the work of Harold Bloom, this particular theory views influence as mere power and represents a broadly accepted meaning in twentieth century thought. Canons or traditions of thought came to be institutions in themselves reflecting prevalent social and political inequalities. To be sure, a theory of influence as power came to be seen as complicit in arbitrary canon formation, across a range of disciplines. The book argues, ultimately, that a second theory of influence, imported from Mary Orr’s work on intertextuality, affords a rival perspective and a more positive, intergenerational meaning of influence. Orr’s ‘braided rope’ theory of influence allows for the development of a plurality of canons each capable of constructing new histories for a variety of epistemic communities. The existence of agonistic, rival canons presents pedagogical questions for all teachers of political theory, but one that can be potentially navigated by a new understanding of influence, in the Orrian tradition.

Author : Conal Condren
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781580465823

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Political Vocabularies by Conal Condren Pdf

Considers how political language has changed through time, looking at concrete examples from English and other languages.

Author : Cary J. Nederman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0847679446

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Community and Consent by Cary J. Nederman Pdf

In the first examination of the Defensor Pacis in almost fifty years, Cary J. Nederman demonstrates Marsiglio of Padua's continuing relevance, connecting his philosophy to contemporary debates about community, identity, difference, and political participation. Community and Consent describes Marsiglio's attempt to resolve the tension in medieval Christian political thought created by the apparently competing standards of reason (thought to be the province of a few) and volition (the realm of every individual). Marsiglio argued for a harmonization of reason and will, regarding neither as sufficient to authorize political conduct. The book includes historical and biographical information not previously available in English, as well as a survey and critique of the current state of Marsiglio scholarship in all languages.

Author : Bruce Kaye
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780898697667

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Reinventing Anglicanism by Bruce Kaye Pdf

Anglicanism world-wide faces many problems in the post-Empire era. Churches that were originally founded as colonial and missionary outposts by Great Britain and the United States have now become autonomous Anglican provinces; and what used to be a predominantly white, Anglo-Saxon group of churches in the northern hemisphere has become a truly global community, most of whose members live in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Pacific. Using the experience of the Anglican Church in Australia, Bruce Kaye tracks the modern story of Australian Anglicanism and reconsiders key elements of the New Testament, the English Reformation, and the ongoing theological traditions that relate to this story.

Author : Edward Bryan Portis
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781544359786

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Reconstructing the Classics by Edward Bryan Portis Pdf

To truly understand the substance and value of any great philosopher’s work, students must examine political theory against the backdrop of history, the surrounding literature, and the individual theorist’s views on human nature and rational motivation. In this third edition of his classic text, Edward Portis provides students with the framework they need to fully appreciate the original texts they are reading and apply the concepts they are learning. Fully updated since the previous edition almost a decade ago, Portis expands his coverage to include a complete chapter on Max Weber. Further, Portis strengthens his lucid introductions to the greatest theorists of Western political thought, proving them indispensable guides for both the politically engaged citizen and the practicing social scientist. He also provides suggestions, updated for this edition, for further reading in political theory.

Author : Gary K. Browning
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199682287

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A History of Modern Political Thought by Gary K. Browning Pdf

How are we to understand past political thinkers? Is it a matter simply of reading their texts again and again? Do we have to relate past texts of political thought to the contexts in which ideas were composed and in which the aims of past thinkers were formulated? Or should past political theories be deconstructed so as to uncover not what their authors maintain, but what the texts reveal? In this book, theories of interpreting past political thinkers are examined and the interpretive methods of a range of theories are reviewed, including those of Hegel, Marx, Oakeshott, Collingwood, the Cambridge School, Foucault, Derrida and Gadamer. The application of these theories of interpretation to notable modern political theorists, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Bentham, Mill, Nietzsche and Beauvoir is then used as a way of understanding modern political thought and of assessing interpretive theories of past political thought. The result is a book which sees the history of modern political thought as more than a procession of political theories but rather as a reflection on the meaning of past political thought and its interpretation. It provides a way of reading the history of modern political thought, in which the question of interpretation matters both for understanding how we interpret the past but also for considering what it means to undertake political thinking.

Author : DonaldR. Kelley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351545105

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The Descent of Ideas by DonaldR. Kelley Pdf

The 'history of ideas', better known these days as intellectual history, is a flourishing field of study which has been the object of much controversy but hardly any historical exploration. This major new work from Donald R. Kelley is the first comprehensive history of intellectual history, tracing the study of the history of thought from ancient, medieval and early modern times, its emergence as the 'history of ideas' in the 18th century, and its subsequent expansion. The point of departure for this study is the perspective opened up by Victor Cousin in the early 19th-century on 'Eclecticism' and its association with the history of philosophy established by Renaissance scholars. Kelley considers a broad range of topics, including the rivalry between 'ideas' and language, the rise of cultural history, the contributions of certain 19th- and 20th-century practitioners of the history of ideas in interdisciplinary areas of philosophy, literature and the sciences, and finally the current state of intellectual history. The central theme of the book is the interplay between the canon of philosophical thought and the tradition of language and textual study, the divergence of the latter marking the 'descent of ideas' into the realm of cultural history.

Author : Hanna Orsolya Vincze
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443838573

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The Politics of Translation and Transmission by Hanna Orsolya Vincze Pdf

This book is a study on the beginnings of Hungarian political thought, as set out by two 17th century mirrors of princes, the first attempts at political theorising in the Hungarian vernacular. The unlikely source text for these treatises was an advice book by King James the VIth and Ist to his son, Basilikon Doron. As an analysis of the translation and re-reading of a widely circulated text by the king of England and Scotland, the book is also a study in early modern cross-cultural dialogue, situated in the context of recent discussions on transculturalism, and more specifically on the intellectual connections between Britain and the world. The various contemporary translations of King James’s book to diverse contexts and languages enlisted it to different agendas, making it difficult to cast the process of translation and transmission as a story of a reception of an idea. They rather call attention to the importance of the local stakes involved in translation. How ideas originally formulated in a Scottish context came to be re-articulated in a Central European one is a particularly interesting story that provides us with a possibility to paint a picture of the various political languages in use at the time, from divine right arguments to elements of civic humanism, neostoicism, political Calvinism in its magisterial version, Old Testament biblicism and millenarianism.

Author : Donald S. Lutz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:49015001384222

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A Preface to American Political Theory by Donald S. Lutz Pdf

Donald Lutz begins A Preface to American Political Theory by explaining what the book doesn't do. It doesn't begin with a panegyric to the American founding. It doesn't answer the following questions: "What are the basic principles in the U.S. Constitution? What were the intentions of the founders with respect to (fill in your own topic)? What is the meaning of pluralism, or separation of powers, or democracy, or (fill in your own concept)?" In short, it doesn't provide an overview of the content, development, or major conclusions of American political theory. What it does do is provide "a pre-theoretical analysis of how to go about studying questions like the ones above-how to conceptualize the project, how to proceed in looking for answers, how to avoid the logical traps peculiar to the study of American political theory." Lutz sets out to emancipate American political theorists from empiricism and inappropriate European theories and methadologies. The end result is to establish the foundation for the systematic study of American behavior, institutions, and ideas; to provide a general introduction to the study of American political theory; and to illustrate how textual analysis, history, empirical research, and analytic philosophy are all part of the enterprise. Designed for students and scholars in all disciplines, including political science, history, and legal studies, A Preface to American Political Theory doesn't provide answers to central continuing issues in American political theory. Rather, it provides an effective, sophisticated entree into the study of American political theory. Readers will be armed with the intellectual tools to engage in systematic study and makes them aware of the pitfalls they will inevitably encounter.

Author : Paul Babie,Neville Rochow
Publisher : University of Adelaide Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780987171818

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Freedom of Religion Under Bills of Rights by Paul Babie,Neville Rochow Pdf

"The Australian Constitution contains no guarantee of freedom of religion or freedom of conscience. Indeed, it contains very few provisions dealing with rights — in essence, it is a Constitution that confines itself mainly to prescribing a framework for federal government, setting out the various powers of government and limiting them as between federal and state governments and the three branches of government without attempting to define the rights of citizens except in minor respects. […] Whether Australia should have a national bill of rights has been a controversial issue for quite some time. This is despite the fact that Australia has acceded to the ICCPR, as well as the First Optional Protocol to the ICCPR, thereby accepting an international obligation to bring Australian law into line with the ICCPR, an obligation that Australia has not discharged. Australia is the only country in the Western world without a national bill of rights.4 The chapters that follow in this book debate the situation in Australia and in various other Western jurisdictions.' From Foreword by The Hon Sir Anthony Mason AC KBE: Human Rights and Courts

Author : Ryan Walter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780197603055

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Before Method and Models by Ryan Walter Pdf

The debate over theory before Malthus and Ricardo : Burke, Mackintosh, and Stewart -- The vocabulary of theory and practice in the Bullion controversy, 1797- -- The corn laws and free trade casuistry, 1813- -- Doctrinal contest I : value -- Doctrinal contest II : rent -- Doctrinal contest III : profits -- Conclusion: A new past.